Chapter one: the little brown box
Rosette was getting irritated…very irritated, what was taking him so long? It was getting late in the afternoon and it was getting colder and all Rosette wanted to do was to go home.
Joshua soon appeared thought the school gates while reading a book, not even realising that Rosette was there, Rosette raised an eye brow.
"Hey bookworm…Hello earth to Joshua" she exclaimed
Joshua stopped with a confused look on his face.
"I'm behind you, dummy" Rosette laughed
Joshua turned around to find Rosette looking back at him with her arms folded.
"Oh hey Rosette" he said sounding surprised
"Gosh, Joshua what took you so long?" Rosette asked
"What do you mean what took me so long? You know I have book club on a Friday after school" Joshua replied
"Whatever, anyway let's get home it's getting cold and it looks like it's going to rain" Rosette said while placing both her arms behind her head.
Joshua nodded and started walking along with Rosette, while holding the book to his chest, Rosette looked over.
"Hey Joshua what's the book you're reading?" she asked
"Oh it's called Death comes from the heart" Joshua replied
Rosette sighed "Let me guess another romance novel?" she teased
"Yep, but this one's different it is about a girl who meets a demon, and they fall in love, but the other demons wouldn't allow it, and try to kill the girl so the demon has to sacrifice himself to save her" Joshua explained holding the book closer to him.
Rosette snorted "What a load of rubbish, I mean why would anyone fall in love with such a vile creature, and two why are you reading it Joshua isn't a little girlish for you?" she asked
"I like it, because I like it, and if you don't like it deal with it" Joshua snapped
"Whoa okay Joshua, Jeez keep you wig on" Rosette said in defence
They stopped to cross the road; they looked both ways before finally deciding it was safe to cross.
They kept on walking in silence for another couple of houses down before Joshua stopped outside a house, number 42.
"Well here I am, see you at school on Monday" Joshua said
"Alright, see you then" Rosette replied
they said there final goodbyes before going their separate ways, after about half way down the road from Joshua's house Rosette let out a sigh, "Jeez, I've got a lot of homework this weekend looks like no fun days out for me" Rosette sighed mentally before she saw a old coke can and started kicking it the rest of the way home.
She fiddled though her blazer pocket before she finally found her set of keys, Rosette unlocked her door and pushed it open, it made a squeaking noise like it always did, it always made Rosette shudder as it reminded her of the old horror movie she used to watch with her sister.
"Hey I'm home!" she called as she closed the door behind her with her foot.
"Oh hey Rosie!" a feminine voice called back it sounded like her sister.
Rosette took off her blazer and hooked it on to a clothes peg while kicking off her shoes in the middle of the hallway, after that she made her way to the kitchen, where she found her sister sitting at the table while speaking on the phone, Rosette rolled her eyes "Boyfriend no less" Rosette thought to her self.
"Hey stop it your embarrassing me" her sister giggled on the phone, as Rosette made her way to the fridge, she opened it to find the last bit of chocolate cream cake, rosette made a grab for it and before you could say Hey that's mine Rosette had almost finished it.
Just then Rosette's sister hung up on the phone, and looked over at Rosette who had made her way to the kitchen table.
"You know, Rosie if you keep snaking like that you'll become fat" Rosette's sister teased
"Yeah well it's my body, Chloe, so hush" Rosette replied stuffing the last bit of cake in her mouth
Chloe just shrugged "suit yourself"
"Hey was that your boyfriend on the phone?" Rosette asked changing the subject
"Yep and he asked me out to the concert this Sunday" Chloe replied smiling and blushing
Rosette laughed and got of her chair and walked over to her sister, and smiled wickedly "For what, to get a little physical with you?" she teased.
Chloe's mouth and eyes widened "Why you…" but she never got to finish her sentence as all she saw was Rosette dart her way up stairs still laughing.
Rosette's bedroom door burst open, and in darted Rosette still holding her sides in laughter "My gosh, her face, what a classic that's what she gets for trying to call me fa..." Rosette suddenly stopped laughing and what she was thinking as something caught her eye.
There laid a small brown box sitting comfortably on her pillow, she walked over to it and picked it up and looked at the label, it didn't say who it was addressed to but she guessed it could be for her, she gasped " but I wasn't expecting any post" Rosette thought out loud.
She fiddled with it, turning it at different angles it was neatly wrapped with a pretty little pink bow on it, "Hmmm…cute, well I might as well open it as it is on my bed , so it must be for me" Rosette thought.
Carefully Rosette started to unwrap the box until all Rosette saw was another brown box, she sighed and slowly lifted the box lid and looked inside…
She gasped there laid what looked like an old pocket watch, she grabbed hold of its golden chain and lifted it to the light, it looked wonderful the way it shone in the light and how the gold sparkled.
Rosette started to admire it, her mouth wide open, "Wow who ever posted this must be ri…ouch!" Rosette suddenly dropped the pocket watch with a thump on the floor, Rosette stood there clutching her now painful hand.
Rosette looked closer at the watch and found some weird markings on it; she gasped and stammered backwards into her bookshelf that made a couple of books fall…
It seemed that Rosette had seen the watch before, but when?
As Rosette stood there trying to figure it out, a shadow walked the streets searching desperately for something he has so foolishly lost, he had been searching for many days and nights now with out much luck, and now he was getting irritated he had to find it and fast if he didn't want any more life's to be lost…
AN: well that was Chapter one people, so how was it? Should I continue? Please review.
Short Note: in this story Rosette has a sister named Chloe and Joshua isn't her brother but a friend. And her sisters nickname for Rosette is Rosie.
TTFN ^.^